Judy Sandra

Reviews

BOSTON BOOK BUMS

"Biblioholic Review: The Metal Girl
...Sandra gives a matter-of-fact portrayal of a twenty-something woman on the cusp of realizing who she is. Her observations of the locale and the locals are so hyper-real that it feels you may be able to reach out and touch the metal girl, like the protagonist, feel the coldness of the unknown. Sandra weaves the feeling of loneliness in each personal interaction.

This is a short novel but Sandra’s writing easily entices the reader to come in from the cold and stay a while."

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Review by Cheryl Anne Gardner

Excerpts from the review:
"...As the story progresses, we have meals, and drinking, and polite surface conversations. There is no wild sex, no grand epiphanies, and no finding one's soul mate; it's just a bunch of people struggling through everyday life trying to make and keep meaningful connections. It's the ordinariness that's important here. The main character's experiences are real, conflicted, and so significantly insignificant...One thing is certain, nothing is as it seems; even the banality is a lie...When reading this story, it's much more about what she doesn't do and doesn't say than about what she does...I thought it was an honest story and very realistic...The story is very subtle, and I would liken it in style to Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants", where the reader has to infer much of the meaning. The Metal Girl was a book I put down with an "I wonder" still left on the tip of my tongue."

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